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Tag Archives: Michael Spyres
Beyond Egmont: a semi-revival for Donizetti’s Le Duc d’Albe
Donizetti: Le Duc d’Albe (Opera Rara) European wrangles in Brussels are nothing new. In Donizetti’s Le Duc d’Albe, Brussels is under Spanish rule, Count Egmont has just been beheaded and his daughter, Hélène, is inciting a Flemish revolt. The hot-headed … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Meade, David Stout, Donizetti, Gianluca Buratto, Laurent Naouri, Le Duc d'Albe, Mark Elder, Michael Spyres, Opera Rara, Opera Rara Chorus, The Hallé
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Les Martyrs: Revelatory Donizetti on disc from Opera Rara
Donizetti: Les Martyrs When Donizetti’s rarity Poliuto opened the 2015 Glyndebourne Festival a week ago, the music would already have been familiar to a number of audience members. Only last autumn, those operatic archaeologists Opera Rara had put on a … Continue reading
To Paradise and back: a thrilling Le Roi de Lahore from Chelsea Opera Group
Massenet: Le Roi de Lahore **** Queen Elizabeth Hall, 1st March 2015 This is what Chelsea Opera Group was put on this earth for! Take an obscure grand opera that Covent Garden wouldn’t touch with a barge pole, prune it … Continue reading
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Tagged Anush Hovhannisyan, Chelsea Opera Group, Jihoon Kim, Joshua Bloom, Justina Gringyte, Le Roi de Lahore, Massenet, Michael Spyres, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Renato Balsadonna, William Dazeley
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Opera Rara: Donizetti’s Les Martyrs a revelation
Donizetti: Les Martyrs ***** Opera Rara, Royal Festival Hall, 4th November 2014 There is no shortage of rare Donizetti operas set in exotic locations – Emilia di Liverpool, Zoroaida di Granata, Harrison di Accrington (okay, artistic license exercised on that final one) – so … Continue reading
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Tagged Brindley Sherratt, Clive Bayley, David Kempster, Donizetti, Joyce El-Khoury, Les Martyrs, Mark Elder, Michael Spyres, Opera Rara, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Wynne Evans
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“One that lov’d not wisely but too well”: Antonenko a thrilling Otello
Verdi: Otello Riccardo Muti/Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO Resound) As destiny would have it, the latest disc to land on the review pile following my final report on the gigantic Tutto Verdi box was this concert recording of Otello from Chicago. … Continue reading
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Tagged Aleksandrs Antonenko, Carlo Guelfi, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, IRR, Krassimira Stoyanova, Michael Spyres, Otello, Riccardo Muti, Verdi
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